Llfni 2nd January 2015……find and eddy!

A great picture taken by Barry who managed to take this whilst continously  spinning around! From left to right we have John the paddler , 9 o clock at Dobbies Rich, Geoff (FWPTKOA), Things are so much safer with me! Tim, Super Kee, Safe pair of hands Mike, Anyone fancy a cup of coffee? Nige and last but not least the increasingly impressive Chucky.

Today, we had a blast. Up there with the best we’ve done.

We didn’t manage to paddle the Everglades section at the start of this river and in our quest to paddle everything in the guidebook the only way to get through this section is to hire duck costumes and quack our way through thus fooling the lady who apparently calls the police if anything other than a duck floats through!

The river takes a while to kick in but when it does it does! This may have been the first time some of the group had experienced a continuous river and we all performed really well. It makes all those trips to Jackfields worthwhile! I thought the teamwork was brilliant today and everyone got stuck in helping to portage trees and starting to use signals a bit more.

We grouped up nicely before the tunnel section and formulated a plan involving a team on the river and a team on the bank. This still involved a big commitment by Mike and Rich going into the unknown and a big thanks to them. Chucky found an eddy above the tunnel entrance on river right and we will make use of this if we return in the future.

After the tunnel the river picked up and we were flying down at a rate of knots, making a few micro eddies here and there, we slalomed through trees, we portaged trees, we continued to fly down at a rate of knots, we found ourselves at the front, the back and the middle of the group smiling as we passed each other. “This is great!” shouts John. It summed it up.

We had a little fight with a final tree hazard about 400 yards from the end of the trip. It all ended well though with big smiles, loads to talk about over a pint on Thursday and another adventure ends.

P.S did anyone find my shoe?

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